The emergence of the comics medium as part of modern visual culture has posed several questions for anarchists engaged with the arts: to what extent can comics be regarded as "popular" culture in the substantive sense that ...

Karl May was born in utter poverty and spent some extremely difficult years in his youth, even ending up in jail. His talent, however, allowed him to escape this situation. His adventure novels earned him a fortune. Upon ...

This article examines rhetorical strategies of nonsensical political humor in Pierre La Police's Véridique! comics. Applying the Groupe µ's theoretical principles, which posit that various deviations from a standard semantic ...

Within the trilogy entitled Les Terres creuses, the symbol of the circle plays a central role. It evokes at the same time unity and multiplicity, as well as reflection, the tricks mirrors play, as well as the vicious circle ...

"Never like today has woman been as under-utilized. The only life accorded to her is that of her feelings, and feelings are devalued." ("Préface to Ange De Spola", Etudes de femmes, 2 volumes, Paris, Victor Magen, 1842). ...

Stand-up comedy is as low-brow as they come: oral, popular/vulgar, and of course not serious. It is also hardly studied by French academic criticism. In its case, even the problem of the devaluation of media genres (genre ...

his article is complementary to a forthcoming book (La Cristallisation de l'ombre, PULIM, 2011), dealing with the French spy story before the Cold War. The thesis is that the French defeat against Prussia was a fundamental ...

Labiche and Delcourt, in En avant les Chinois! and Le voyage en Chine, use China as an excuse to make fun of typically French situations, and to give an exotic tinge to characters and situations that are very familiar to ...